Why do you think that the mistake is frequently made of considering postdelivery software maintenance to be inferior to software development?

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Maintenance usually involves changes to other people’s work, so
it is mistakenly viewed as a noncreative task. Also, because
development of a complete product usually involves many more
person-months than one single maintenance task, development tasks
pro­duce more revenue than maintenance tasks, and hence better
professionals are put to work meeting the development deadlines to
bring in the money. The flaw in this argu­ment can be seen by
measuring the total annual revenue from development and from
maintenance.